"The current U.S. power plant fleet consumes a massive amount of freshwater - more than 40 percent of all freshwater withdrawals as recently as 2005 -- according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Those water withdrawals make electricity generation the largest "consumer" of fresh water outside of the [ READ MORE... ]

It extends for miles in all directions, so it is as though we are primordial creatures emerging from the mist onto the banks of an alien island world. The ridge top above is fire scarred and dotted with the skeletons of recently charred conifers. An impossibly-green carpet of thigh deep grasses and [ READ MORE... ]

The herd bull’s full grandeur came into focus through the spotting scope. A 7×6 mainframe with extra junk all over – a Little Mountain monster – everything one comes to expect from this storied Wyoming sanctuary of public lands. A kicker stuck straight up from the base of each first brow tine. Mass [ READ MORE... ]

It’s a genius idea when you think about it, one that stems from the very fabric this country was built on, a notion that some natural resources, and I’m not talking oil or gas or coal or timber, but fundamental natural resources – mountain streams, fresh air, wild game – belong to all of us, that [ READ MORE... ]